GOOGLE TECHNICAL TALK:
7:00 P.M., WWH 109 Online Ad Auction Mechanisms and Bidding Strategies
Muthu Muthukrishnan
Muthukrishnan graduated from the Courant Institute, NYU and has research
interests in algorithms, databases and networking. He has worked on
algorithms, systems and applications for analyzing massive data
``streams'' and is the author of the book Data Streams: Algorithms and
Applications. He is currently a Research Scientist at Google, working
on Bidding/Pricing and Auction algorithms.
This event is sponsored by NYU's Women in Computing (WinC)
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~wincweb/
Email:
wincweb@cs.nyu.edu .
PLEASE SIGN UP TO ATTEND THE GOOGLE/NYU TECH TALK AT:
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

MATERIALS WORKING GROUP:
9:30 - 10:30 A.M., WWH 1314 Coupled Atomistic-Continuum Methods for Fluids
Weiqing Ren
Note: This is the first meeting of a new Materials Working Group .
To be put on its mailing list, send a request to
kohn@cims.nyu.edu .
Only the first few meetings will be announced in the weekly bulletin.

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 102 Reconstructing Biological Circuits and Modules from Systems-Biology
Data: A Biology-Jargon Free Introduction to Current Status and Remaining
Challenges
Richard Bonneau, NYU
PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE IN ROOM NUMBER AND TITLE OF TALK!
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/

MONDAY, OCTOBER 1

MATERIALS WORKING GROUP:
9:30 - 10:30 A.M., WWH 1314 A Variational Approach to Brittle Fracture
Gilles Francfort, Paris-Nord
Note: This is the second meeting of a new Materials Working Group .
To be put on its mailing list, send a request to
kohn@cims.nyu.edu .
Only the first few meetings will be announced in the weekly bulletin.

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302 An Electronic Field Guide: Plant Exploration in the 21st
Century
Peter Belhumeur, Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/

2007 MARGARET AND HERMAN SOKOL FACULTY AWARD IN THE SCIENCES:
5:00 P.M., Jurow Lecture Hall, 1st Floor of the Silver Center
The 2007 Sokol Award recipient Nicholas Geacintov
will be giving a lecture entitled, Unraveling the Secrets of DNA Repair
The evening will include a reception following the lecture.

SPECIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 613
A New Proof of Gromov's Theorem on Groups of Polynomial Growth
Bruce Kleiner, Yale University
To view the abstract for this talk, click on:
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/diff_geom.html

MONDAY, DECEMBER 10

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
1:00 P.M., WWH 1302 A Nonlinearly Implicit Manifesto
David Keyes, Columbia University
Note special date and time (1 pm). Part of the RTG series.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~dbindel/nasem/

COMPUTER SCIENCE FALL 2007 SHOWCASE:
5:00 - 9:00 P.M., WWH 13th Floor Commons Come join the students of the Computer Science department at an
event showcasing projects that have been completed in various computer
science graduate and undergraduate courses this semester. This is a great
opportunity to see the creativity and industry of NYU's CS department.
Light refreshments will be served.
http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/